any of the basic monetary units of various countries, as Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria

a former Scottish monetary unit (), originally equal to the British pound

Bible mina

Origin of pound

Middle English ; from Old English pund, akin to German pfund: West Germanic loanword ; from Classical Latin pondo, a pound, origin, originally ablative of pondus, weight (in libra pondo, a pound in weight), akin to pendere: see pendant